Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad (rh), the fourth Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community:

‘I appeal not only to the Muslim countries but to the Eastern world, Africans and South Americans, that after you experienced all this, I implore you to please become aware and take a decision to change your own fate. The period of humiliation and degradation has been long. Now come out of this nightmare. For your enemies and the Super Powers there could be a cheerful conception of a New World Order, but for the Third world nations no other nightmare could be more dreadful.

‘If you want to be the builders of the New World Order, then start caring for, and fashioning your own dreams. Try to learn the noble ways of transforming your dreams into deeds and actions. No nation can be free until it is economically free.

‘The first step towards economic advancement is to safeguard your ego and self-respect. This will not be possible until and unless a campaign for austere lifestyle is adopted in the Third world countries.’

Mirza Tahir Ahmad, The Gulf Crisis and the New World Order, 1992; p. 29